On-yomi and Kun-yomi

This is a dumb question but if Kanji is how a word is written, for example, one is a line and furigana is a guide for the words pronunciation in either hiragana or katakana, in this case “I” and “chi” What would be the purpose of On-yomi and Kun-yomi?

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